What screws me is the DRM iLock software. I’ve tried running Reaper in Wine/Bottles but the playback with guitar is no longer realtime due to the emulation/translation going on.

I just switched to an AxeFx FM9 so I don’t need realtime playback as much but I can’t use any of my Neural DSP plugins.

Let me know if you’ve found workarounds.

Good read!

I really like Bottles. I also tried Lutris for Battlenet which worked really well.

I don’t know all the differences between them though.

With that number of cat toys it makes me think you really care about your kitty.

We spoil ours as well.

One small blessing of them being so technically incompetent is that there is no DRM, so you can just use yt-dlp to download whatever show you want to keep. It’s just a small pain to do because you need to download your login cookie to pass to yt-dlp.

Obsidian is so so good.

I don’t even mind to pay for their sync service to support them. You can even encrypt your vault (notebook) with your own key.

I use syncthing on my phone to backup photos to a drive on my homelab.